Solved No Thumbnails in Open File Dialogs or Windows Explorer - Why??

[David40]

I got a new computer with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and I find it very annoying that in all the Open File dialog boxes and even Windows Explorer there does not seem to be a selection under the View menu to show thumbnails of image files. Even when I select Contents and highlight the file it still only shows a generic icon. Can anyone please tell me if there is a way to fix this?

Thanks for any help

 

[Brink]

Hello David, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Double check using the tutorial below to make sure that you have thumbnail previews enabled.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11738-thumbnail-previews-enable-disable.html
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If you do, then double check to make sure that you have Windows Photo Viewer set as the default program with all of it's associations.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2630-default-programs-set-programs-default-associations.html
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Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[David40]

WOW!! What a difference. Considering how fast computers are these days I can't understand why that would not be the default setting. I've been grumbling about the missing thumbnails for months.
Thanks so much for taking the time to reply.

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome David.

Normally thumbnail previews are enabled by default.